Shaping the Adversary Culture

Modeling the adversary 1 Running head: MODELING THE ADVERSARY Modeling the Adversary and Success in Competition

Competition has been studied as something to be averted, yet rarely has it been asked what processes may be involved in successful competition. We tested whether more accurate modeling of an adversary can assist competitive success. Pairs played a zero-sum game with no specific skill component over 40 trials. We measured the relative accuracy of the players’ second-order model (i.e., what I thi...

Shaping Organizational Culture: A Practitioner's Perspective

Shaping knowledge management: organization and national culture

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to confirm quantitatively the previous finding that organizational characteristics influence knowledge management, and to assess whether the national culture of knowledge workers equally affects the management of knowledge. Design/methodology/approach – Based on data gathered from a questionnaire survey of a Japanese pharmaceutical company’s 14 foreign sub...

Management's role in shaping organizational culture.

AIM The present study addresses the importance of the manager's role in the development and maintenance of organizational culture. It describes the types of cultures that exist and manager characteristics that are essential to facilitating a healthy workplace. BACKGROUND While many managers do not deny the importance of organizational culture in employee satisfaction, few fail to realize the ...

Taming the Adversary

While there is a great deal of sophistication in modern cryptology, simple (and simplistic) explanations of cryptography remain useful and perhaps necessary. Many of the explanations are informal; others are embodied in formal methods, particularly in formal methods for the analysis of security protocols. This note (intended to accompany a talk at the Crypto 2000 conference) describes some of t...